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Thursday, June 25, 2009

Thursday, June 25, 2009

NASA wanted to do something special for all the lady astronauts of the world:

And by "special", I mean something big, flaccid, curving to the right, poised to explode into the dark recesses that are out of this world, and that says "Women in Space: We've Come A Long Way".

[biting lip] Wow. So many innuendo-laced jokes, so little time. And if my mom didn't read this blog (Hi, Mom!), you can bet I'd be saying something about the fallacy that men can't organize - much less erect - a project of this size. Or how nice it is to see NASA giving women the upper hand in the space program, so that they, too, can get ahead. In fact, I'd probably wonder aloud if it wasn't rather cold in the exhibit hall, if that wouldn't put too fine a point on it.

However, since my mom *does* read this blog (Hi, Mom!), all I'm going to say is this, and to the cake creator: don't take my good-natured ribbing too hard. The fact that you got a government agency to pay for your services makes you a Wreck star.

And for you deprived souls who didn't get the FotC reference, watch this:

I would have hated to have been at the party and had to take the required pose with the cake photos. Either my face would have been really red or I would be smirking like mad tryig not to laugh out loud.

If I had to complain it'd be about the scale though. (also the OMS pods are missing and the SRBs aren't marked.. sorry just nitpicking from a NASA buff) The little woman figurine should be quite a bit smaller. That or the whole cake should have been that much BIGGER!

Hat and Fappy! said I would have hated to have been at the party and had to take the required pose with the cake photos. Either my face would have been really red or I would be smirking like mad tryig not to laugh out loud.

I think I would have deliberately gone for an obscene pose if I were there. :P

Generally, I enjoy your blog simply as a lurker. But this...I mean...not one of the people working at the bakery stood back and said "You know...this is really starting to look...well..schlongish. Maybe we should adjust our approach".

As a cake decorator, I would have been ashamed to send it to a client.

Just to add some more NASA trivia, I know the gentleman who figured out that it was better not to paint the SWT, and leave it in it's "natural" state. (from a distance I suppose rust could resemble a flesh tone...)

In light of this cake-for-the-ladies, I'll shake his hand for you.

P.s. Seriously? No "too many d*** on the launchpad"? It was the perfect bookend.

I've been toying with the idea of using this song for the garter toss at my wedding dance (this Sunday!), and it's been in my head for daaaaaaaaaays, so it's crazy to wake up and find it here. (I think we've decided to go with the Most Beautiful Girl in the Room instead, btw. :-)

And speaking of weddings, I think this cake is perhaps more appropriate for bachelorette party shenanigans than for NASA!

I was very excited to have a FotC reference right off the bat. I almost thought it was too good to be true...until you had the video at the end! I think I love you even more now! Almost as much as I love Bret and Jemaine :)

I guess I would never have noticed the similarities if they hadn't been pointed out. It doesn't really look that much like a you-know-what to me at all. And yes, I do know what a you-know-what looks like. I guess I just don't see giant male reproductive organs everywhere I look...

My sons built a rocket one year instead of a snowman. It had a very similar erectness as the NASA rocket in the photo. When the temperatures rose? It needed a little viagra. We tried putting fins on it but they ended up looking like....well, you know. People slowed down and stared in shock. It was very realistic. What can I say? My kids are Rodins.

Diana Gallagher did a song called "A Reconsideration of Anatomical Docking Maneuvers in A Zero G Environment" years ago as noted in the following Wiki article - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_in_space

Words to the song can be found here - http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/songs/docking-maneuvers.html

that was perfect!!!!!i was sooo glad i went to the bathroom before checking the blog.i would have peed myself for sure!!the video was awsome!!!im gona show it to my dad and die laughing at the look on his face!!what a way to go!!

Unfortunately, I work for NASA. *Sigh* I can't imagine why neither a secretary or the individual who ordered the cake checked to make it it looked right. If I attended the event, I would hang my head in shame and cry out, "Who in the world ordered this!" I guess it's a good thing I was not invited. Also, Love the site. I check it every morning to have my chuckles for the day. I even share it with others. See! I spread the joy around.

Wow, that really is a giant orange penis. A friend of mine had a NASA cake at her wedding because she and her husband met at Space Camp (seriously), and it was not a wreck. It was definitely one of the best weddings I've ever been to.

It's actually probably not photoshopped. Here's what it's based on. That big red thing is the "external tank", a legitimate piece of NASA hardware. Any phallic resemblances are in the mind of the beholder. :D

Do a close-up (click on the picture) and examine the area to the top left of the, uh, top. There's a thin line of background that has a little wobble in it, like when you're fixing points in Photoshop and you change directions.

I admit it. It was actually a twelve foot penis cake and I photoshopped it to look like a space shuttle. I'm sorry. Please forgive me.

Seriously guys why, after seeing hundreds of poorly made cakes on this sight, do you find it necessary to call photoshop on this one. It's a big fondant covered cake that has sagged due to heat, mishandling or it's own weight. It looked like that before it got eaten. Hoomp. Day it is.

But John, those didn't look Photoshopped. This one does.... it's not that I can't imagine a cake looking like a giant whatsit, it's just that this one looks like a cake that originally looked like a giant whatsit, and somebody decided to make it look a little MORE like a giant whatsit before they submitted it.

If someone played with it, they only messed with the upper third of the booster tank. But those borders definitely look hinky to me.

I agree with Miranda.. "Thou doth protest too much". Just WHAT are these people thinking, anyway? :)

You might lose a few fans, but heck.. for those of us who don't mind a little adult humor, bring it on. It's not like it's the first time that it's happened (ie "alien joy sticks".. the fireman.. the, um, 'balloons' on a kid's cake, etc). Not sure why someone thinks that this should be a kid-friendly website anyway.

Priceless! I'm a female astronomer at NASA and I'd totally buy a t-shirt with that photo and "Houston, we have a problem" below. It would make a killing in the gift shop. But NASA Headquarters has no sense of humor.

Thanks so much for the FotC reference - made my day! Also loved seeing all the comments from "All the ladies in the world" too, who evidently also love my homeboys from here in New Zealand - us Kiwis are super-proud of those guys - they're carving up!

At least it's only a temporary error. The land where I come from (Alberta, Canada) has a multitude of "world's largest" objects residing in small towns, one of which happens to be the Mundare Ukrainian Sausage: http://www.roadsideattractions.ca/mundare.htm or a big photo: http://www.mundare.ca/galleries/show_photo/1129

When one looks at it straight-on, in line with the sausage, the heart-shaped interpretive sign only adds to the, uh, sausage-fest-ness of the sausage statue. Only a small town, boasting huge pride in their history of meat processing would miss the VERY ENORMOUS double entendre. Why they chose a heart for the interpretive sign, one will never know, but it sure does add to the laughs when you go for a visit.

Adding to the innuendoes, keep up the great wreckyness. I love visiting this website, and have passed it on to many a friend in need of a laugh.

I like the woman in the background...maybe all she is doing is cleaning her glasses, but I like to think she *got* it and laughed so hard she had to take off her glasses and wipe the laughter tears out of her eyes :)

If NASA has a don't ask don't tell policy, then this does not necessarily have to be a cake for the ladies. We need to think in more inclusive terms sometimes, yes? Anyhow thanks for the laugh. Photo shopped or not.

The comments on this cake are astonishing!1. For the people who keep bleating on about possible photoshopping: Get a grip! These cake decorators don't need any help; they wreck unassisted!2. To the person who complained about the non-family-friendly nature of the picture: I'd hope that young children wouldn't have had sufficient experience to make the connection between the cake and the-thing-that-shall-not-be-named.3. To the person who does not go around seeing the-thing-that-shall-not-be-named everywhere: Perhaps you should try harder. It's quite entertaining :) As a proud Kiwi, am very pleased to see that you guys appreciate FoTC (esp. in concert!)EMT

When I clicked on the image to make it larger I couldn't believe that it was actually made for the women in space! Notice how the people in the picture are looking down or hiding their eyes? Tell me why! Why would they make something like this?

"...Any phallic resemblances are in the mind of the beholder. :D"**********Yessss....and there are no doubt some minds around here that are QUITE "beholding" to Jen for giving us--those of us with a funny bone, anyway--a HUGE laugh!

Thanks for all the links to various Relevant And Informative Data. I'll make a note of them and check them out sometime when I'm in the mood. Hubby might get a rise out of it, too! ;}Right now, though, I have more cracking up to attend to...

OMG! I'm THE BIGGEST FotC fan! I recognized the reference as soon as I opened the site. I love you even more now that I know you're a fellow fan, and I didn't think it was possible to love you any more! You, my wrecky friend, ROCK THE PARTY!

Hyena Overlord said... John (husband of Jen) said: "sagged due to heat, mishandling or it's own weight."

Snorks up a Mae West cake laughing,,,sagged...mishandling...weight*L*L**********No kidding--Mae certainly would've had something edgy and raunchy and totally West-y to say about that cake; WHAT, I can only imagine. >^~~^<

Okay. Cake 101 for those of you who are so quick to call fake on this cake. First off, the shuttle has a large external fuel tank which is about to that scale and is that odd rusty color. The decorator in this case chose to airbrush the surface which gives it that mottled appearance. The fact that it is lumpy is most likely due the the undercoating of buttercream icing that is usually applied to the cake to make the fondant stick. You need to smooth the fondant.

Next, it is almost impossible to get a piece of fondant that big since it would sag under its own weight and break apart. So the decorator did the fondant in stages to make it all work, most likely starting from the bottom up. When the decorator laid the top piece of fondant over the top, there was a seam which fell about a quarter of the way down and that would make the ridge necessary.

The thing sticking out of the top is most likely an uncut dowel that is used to support the cake and which the decorator probably left to look like the spike at the top of the fuel tank.

And lastly, the gold halo is probably the glare off of the shiny, painted fondant from the overhead lights.

What gets me, is that the whole cake is sagging and lopsided so why is it at all hard to believe that the huge fuel tank would sag as well? And why would anyone take the time to photoshop an already poorly done cake?

Ryan said... Oh come on..."for the ladies"?! What about gay men? We want a piece of that cake too! Or at least a picture with it that we could post on Facebook!***********************GO for it! HAVE your piece of cake and post it, too! I'm thinking that you just may have to really, actually fake/copy/photoshop your picture, though; it's just not something you see every other day, quite. But good luck!=^~-^=

Ha! I had just blogged about Freudian slips, and here we have it on Cakewrecks. I have a link to cakewrecks on my blog, and if this doesn't count as blatant advertising, I'd like to plug it here: girlswillbewomen.blogspot.com.

I love how prudes think their small children have never seen, wondered about, or giggled at genitalia. I'm also endlessly amused that they feel the need to protect the innocents from the deep, psychological damage that surely will occur upon seeing something that vaguely resembles unclad body parts. Give me a break. Please. You want to avoid damaging your child's psyche? Stop recoiling in disgust at the human body.

Love FotC (saw them in Atlanta in April) and love this very well endowed cake! If I am not mistaken, it looks like this picture was made at the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL. Am I correct? I used to live there, and it looks an awful lot like their building.

yeah, tammy B is right... enlarge the shot and you'll see the tip (sorry) has been altered (shopped). too bad. it's funny to me that people are so into this site that they'd actually take the time to alter a shot like that, just to get it posted.

LOL! That's amazing, and I'll bet the women astronauts were very amused, considering their history in the space program.

For those calling photoshop, I disagree. If you look at the actual images from NASA, that's... what the shuttle looks like while preparing for launch (snickers inappropriately.) They won't let you link directly to pics there, but here's a reference image and here's the NASA gallery. NASA Picture #29 of the shuttle Endeavor is a good reference for comparison. TY for the laugh, Cake Wrecks!

This is awesome. The puns awesome. The comments are awesome. The few prudes didn't even spoil it, because that is so clearly an overreaction.

Except the ones about photoshopping. I vote that you don't let those through moderation. They fall in the mean-spirited category. People accusing you of being an accessory to wreckfraud is not necessary. Stop it people! Not funny. Changing resolution can make a photo look shopped. All the thing john pointed out. Just let it go...let the non-paranoid rest of us enjoy the wrecks. Alex

I LOVE the FOTC - funniest thing - I watch it on youtube, have the CD and dvd of 1st season (can't afford HBO though, darn). Thanks you for combining 2 of my favorite things....cake wrecks and fotc - what a special treat for me. I knew I liked you.deb from MA

There's nothing more annoying than a person who lists their credentials in order to give credence to their argument, but I'm going to do it anyway. I'm a digital imaging professional, with nearly two decades of experience. I've worked as an digital imaging artist and expert consultant for a variety of organizations, agencies, and companies. My work has included preparing statements on whether images have been digitally manipulated.

What I can tell you for certain, is that despite the prevalence of "it's photoshopped" comments on the internet, one is not always able to tell by "looking" whether an image has been altered from its original state. Images can contain elements lit by a variety of light sources. This alone is often a cause for misinterpretation. One of the most common misinterpretations is caused by camera flashes. Flashes cast unusual shadows and highlights, depending on distance, surface, etc. Objects in the foreground lit by a flash might appear out of place from backgrounds because they're lit with a different light source. Flashes often cast shadows that cause objects to appear outlined.

I could go on, but let's just say there are surprisingly few ways to actually know for certain that an image has been digitally altered, and they have more to do with mathematics than what the image looks like. Or in this case, provenance.

Did I say there's nothing more annoying than someone who boasts their credentials to bolster an argument? I take that back. There is one thing more annoying, and that's a person who really has no idea what he or she is talking about spewing "it's photoshopped!" every time they see an unusual image on the internet.

When I first found Cake Wrecks I thought it was a source of good clean fun. I thought you had a higher standard of entertainment. I feel slimed by looking at this post and I won't be visiting your site again. I don't know when you will mix the slime with the good stuff again. Yuck!

I am sorry to hear you were so offended by the post. In our defense, it is still a family friendly post. I believe that all children up to about 16 would see nothing more than a space shuttle and the innuendo laced commentary would never be understood by young minds.

That said, it is your absolute right not to read Cake Wrecks any more. We hate to see you go especially since this week is basketballs and character wedding cakes.

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